In Reply: No one wishes to deny the symptoms
experienced by those diagnosed as having CFS (or, for that matter, the closely
related disorder fibromyalgia). The absence of biological markers does not
invalidate their complaints. But legitimizing the symptoms as a disease construct
serves no one, especially the patient, and is intellectually and fiscally
impoverishing. Thoughtful clinicians have turned away from the concept because
it makes improvement and cure less likely.